On January 6th this year, the McLaughlin’s world changed forever. 4 ½ year-old Tom ran onto the road outside their rented holiday house at McMasters Beach on the Central Coast – and in the blink of an eye his life was over.

His parents Dave and Michelle spoke with Emma Simkin – ahead of this weekend’s launch of their Road Safety Memorial Foundation – ‘Little Blue Dinosaur’. And you can listen to that conversation below. You can also help with the awareness campaign by going to this site https://www.facebook.com/littlebluedinosaur

When a drug addiction takes hold, it can suck the joy out of your life. A group of Indigenous men from across NSW are rediscovering the simple pleasures of a life without drugs and alcohol at Woongarrah on the Central Coast today.

Teams from The Glen Drug and Alcohol Centre, Chittaway, Dooralong Transformation Centre, Whos Rehabilitation Centre, Cessnock, Oolong House, Nowra and Orana House Brewarrina will battle it out on the field to see who takes home the honours this year in the Rehab Touch Footy tournament.

Scott Levi took the ABC mike to the sidelines to catch up with the players and you can listen below.

Normally, Sara Morley comes in to the Afternoons studio to talk about food, but on this week's program, we featured the day Chris went to Sara's TAFE kitchen to play with all the toys there, and create something hopefully delicious.

Do you have a computer? How much did it cost you brand new? I'll bet the answer is a lot more than $25.

That is the new price frontier in computing these days. Now while you don't get a fancy screen, a hard drive, or even a mouse for that money, it is still a fully-functioning computer. And for that price, it's remarkable.

What you may find even more remarkable is that the quaintly-named Raspberry Pi computer is being made and distributed by a charity!

But just what do you get for your $25? And what does The Raspberry Pi Foundation do? Chris spoke to Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Foundation, to find out.

When cyber
linguist Steven Bird set out on a mission to record the dying language of Tembe
he had no idea the challenges he would face. Monsoonal rain, language barriers
even soccer made this task reasonably tricky.

Chris Coleman invited him to share how his adventure into the
Amazon went and began by asking him if he managed to record the almost extinct language.

It's a challenge faced by a large number of families; how to repair relationships after a falling out or other difficult situation, such as a relative spending time in prison. It's often difficult to rebuild family relationships, so we spoke with child psychologist, Dr John Irvine, about some strategies to help navigate this tricky issue.

A couple of weeks ago, our Monday afternoon chef Sara Morley announced she was going to prepare Brussels sprouts for us. Now I love them, but Afternoons producer Sarah Shands wasn't so keen. This meant we had to have her in the studio to sample just what Sara had come up with.

And the result...?

Well, this photo was of Sarah as she was taking her first mouthful, so there's quite a bit of trepidation, but the much-maligned vegetable now has a new fan! You can find out why by checking out Sara's recipes.